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 I have spent a lot of time on YouTube and other sites trying to see what else is out there and I have gotten tired of the search.  So I have started a new “Choir Director’s Brag Blog” for you to put the links to your best work on.  I will embed the videos on […]

If any of you tried to access my various pages unsuccessfully, I’ve included links on the bottom of the homepage as a work-around.   I’ve also updated the website to further address issues relating to Amelia Nagoski’s Choral Journal article — and my subsequent letter to the editor (in the 2101 June/July issue). Included among the issues addressed is an […]

    With the current catastrophe in the Gulf refocussing attention on the environment, this may be an ideal time to programme a work that reflects on our relationship with this planet.     Earthsong is a secular cantata that celebrates Earth – or ‘Gaia’ in the terminology of scientist James Lovelock. It describes nature in joyful, […]

I am wanting to know where I can get help to write successful grant proposals for my women’s ensemble. Are there people that do this professionally? Where would I go to find these resources?   thank you for any suggestions,   Nancy Singla Founder and Artistic director of the Cantala Women’s Ensemble, Toronto, Canada

Friends, I am wondering if any of you have done the Jeffrey Ames arrangement of ‘Let Everything That Hath Breath’ with a Jr. High choir with limited boys. I do not have the music in front of me and do not have access to a copy so I was wondering if it can be done […]

Greetings all– We’re opening a new high school campus this fall, and I’ve been given a budget to build our new library since we’re dividing our current school’s resources in half.  I’m using this opportunity to look at our current stock by era, genre, language, etc. in order to have the most representative selection of […]

Dear All,   Several years ago, I performed “I Got A Mule” arranged by Hall Johnson for male voices.  I am directing a male chorus and I am in search of a copy of this music, which is out of print.   If anyone has this piece, or knows where I may obtain a copy, […]

 Ms. Weihe,   I have a piece that may work; it’s a setting of the text attributed to Chief Seattle which begins “The earth does not belong to us/We belong to the earth.” The music is an ostinato-based sung prayer along the lines of a Taize song. There are three verses which would sung by […]

Listers,   I am looking for the 1969 – 1970 arrangement of “Oh Happy Day” by Edwin Hawkins.  It is no longer in the music library where I taught before my retirement.  Does anyone have an original copy? The arrangement I am looking for is POP.   I have an alumni concert coming up and […]

I’m interested in finding SA/SSA Native American or ancient secular world music that I could teach to a group without handing out music. I’ve looked through threads and researched many suggestions from previous Native American questions/posts, but most of them just wouldn’t be feasible due to a combination of level/ability/length required for those beautiful pieces! […]